Emory University

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Founded in 1836 by the Methodists, today Emory University is a nonsectarian, coeducational, privately owned and operated research university located in Atlanta, Georgia. The university was first established in Oxford, Georgia as Emory College. It moved to the metro Atlanta area in 1915 where it was recharted and renamed Emory University.

Total annual enrollment at Emory is about 14,000 students (7,500 undergraduate and 6,500 postgraduate) and the school has roughly 3,000 faculty and staff. Emory is consistently ranked among the top national universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and several other reputable publications, including Newsweek, Princeton Review and Forbes magazine. The faculty and professors who work at Emory University are some of the most qualified and recognized in the nation. Faculty at Emory have been awarded the Pulitzer Price, Nobel Prize, Fulbright Fellowship and National Humanities Medal.

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With an acceptance rate of roughly 25%, Emory is considered a selective university. For the 2013 academic year, Emory received nearly 17,500 applications of which it accepted 4,630. The GPA for entering freshman is 3.78 and nearly 90% of new students were in the top 10% of their high school graduating class.